Discussing one possible workflow in SFP

Discussing a workflow - Are their more in depth discussions of what and how the various parameters act on a certain type of figure . (green, purple, etc?).  

I have started to fool around with interpretations, full, chords, chords with extensions..  I am feeling comfortable at looking into a lot more place now.. However, sometimes I can't determine the effect of a command process on a section of notes.. I think it's time at least I (and more of use) can come to an understanding.. IF it's in the manual, please redirect, I don't remember reading it, or it went so far above my head, I didn't even remember reading it. 

In general I'd like to see some articles - The theory behind the design of SFP.   Some aspects I can pick up, but I'm sure I'm missing a lot more.  it's just so much to take in..

This is one area that I get stuck in.. For me a lot of the results from SFP are 'lucky accidents'.  I do get a fair amount of the concepts by now,  but always translating that into something musically usefull and nice sounding, some times leaves me hanging.  

My primary use of SFP as I see it right now - will be to start a piece in Logic, with Tyros 4 generators, and then port over to SFP to create more interesting and varied parts than Tyros 4 can generate..  At this point,  I am using T4 to generateup to 8 - 12 parts,  but doing a lot of hand editing, humanizing times, lengths, velodities, thinning out a lot of notes to achieve a more human sound,  (Not so blanket sounding as Arranger kbds sometimes make). 

I hope that SFP will generat some commands  that will help to do this.  I do some of it in Logic, by splitting 3 - 6 note chords into individual tracrs, (select remove highest line, etc.  I can then peform some rand functions on these notes.. randomizing velocityes random up/down by 70 velocities,  I then take a certain range of velocites and mute of erase them.. This is a fairly convoluted proceedure.. I have a bunch of Logic Transform presets to help speed this up.. 

If SFP could do some similar things in future it would be great. So for me, I may want to use SFP with a pre-conditioned MIDI file, and work from there..  I would like ti to takes pre-existing phrases, and make variations, etc.  But I want to keep it within the boundaries of my preconcieved notion of song.. 

For me now, without enough background knowledge of SFP,  I often may come up with interest results, but not in the direction I wanted the music to go...

And now don't laugh,  I've been playing around with Band-In-a-Box for a LOT of years now.. It can really come up with some interesting melodyes, Solo's are a bit too cliched, but I bounce them into SFP and rework them into something more manageable.

If SFP had a melody generator, I know that would be a major plus, because you've already set up a lot of different conditions to control.

Band in a  box will give you the same melody if you stick to the same style, although it sometmes changes,, and they gave up on nameing styles, and have hundreds of styles with just a number.. One must keep written track, if he lucks onto something good..  I often create 2 - 3 different melodies in BIAB and the import into Logic or SFP and rehash them there, sometimes with really great result..

So this workflow for me, requires some very long linear parts,  The newer parts I create are shorter, and I make use of using parameters with different lengths, so the musical lines have variation in them. 

Other times I import the almost finished project back into SFP statically and play around with chord progressions in different parts of song. This feature is just mind blowing.  One need not go into each track at a time to fix a few chords.. A huge timesave.. sometimes a whole song saver, other times a new song creator.  Just go back and change a few parameters, and no one will ever know your songs has just been recycled..